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<td class="v">5:1</td>
<td>Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;</td>
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<td class="v">5:2</td>
<td>And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.</td>
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<td class="v">5:3</td>
<td>But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;</td>
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<td class="v">5:4</td>
<td>Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.</td>
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<td class="v">5:5</td>
<td>For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.</td>
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<td class="v">5:6</td>
<td>Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.</td>
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<td class="v">5:7</td>
<td>Be not ye therefore partakers with them.</td>
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<td class="v">5:8</td>
<td>For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:</td>
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<td class="v">5:9</td>
<td>(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)</td>
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<td class="v">5:10</td>
<td>Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.</td>
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<td class="v">5:11</td>
<td>And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.</td>
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<td class="v">5:12</td>
<td>For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.</td>
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<td class="v">5:13</td>
<td>But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.</td>
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<td class="v">5:14</td>
<td>Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.</td>
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<td class="v">5:15</td>
<td>See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,</td>
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<td class="v">5:16</td>
<td>Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.</td>
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<td class="v">5:17</td>
<td>Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.</td>
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<td class="v">5:18</td>
<td>And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;</td>
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<td class="v">5:19</td>
<td>Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;</td>
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<td class="v">5:20</td>
<td>Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;</td>
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<td class="v">5:21</td>
<td>Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.</td>
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<td class="v">5:22</td>
<td>Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.</td>
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<td class="v">5:23</td>
<td>For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.</td>
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<td class="v">5:24</td>
<td>Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.</td>
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<td class="v">5:25</td>
<td>Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;</td>
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<td class="v">5:26</td>
<td>That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,</td>
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<td class="v">5:27</td>
<td>That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.</td>
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<td class="v">5:28</td>
<td>So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.</td>
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<td class="v">5:29</td>
<td>For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:</td>
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<td class="v">5:30</td>
<td>For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.</td>
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<td class="v">5:31</td>
<td>For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.</td>
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<td class="v">5:32</td>
<td>This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.</td>
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<td class="v">5:33</td>
<td>Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.</td>
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